Right, but we're talking in the context of a specific action to be silent, in which the specific action of silence occurs when someone is willing to talk about

Right, but we're talking in the context of a specific action to be silent, in which the specific action of silence occurs when someone is willing to talk about any other seemingly sensitive matter. I'm confused when we started to generalize to all silences. Sometimes I'm silent because I'm drinking water, or I'm asleep...